Word: knudsenhillman
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Crippled by strikes were three International Harvester plants, paralyzed was Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee. The Office of Production Management had announced, week before, that the Allis-Chalmers dispute was good as settled. OPM's Knudsenhillman had summoned management and union leaders to Washington and talked gruffly, but no sooner were the disputants out of sight than they were at it again. Was OPM muscle more mush than gristle? It began to look...
...headed boss of defense production, OPM's Knudsenhillman, showed his muscle last week in breaking up a labor rumpus. At the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, management and employe had rolled and wrestled for more than three weeks while work on $45,000,000 worth of Army and Navy contracts for turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts ceased. Patience exhausted, Knudsenhillman sent identical telegrams to Milwaukee, urgently "requesting" spokesmen for both sides to hurry to Washington. There defense officials threw them at U. S. Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman. At week's end Knudsenhillman, perspiring and triumphant, announced...
...hottest as the OPM was set up. The U. S. was getting into the second stage: tooling up. The OPM itself was a four-man board on which two were advisory dummies-War Secretary Henry Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Boss was a two-headed man named Knudsenhillman, whose like had never been seen on land or sea, but who looked exactly like a Roosevelt compromise. The struggle raged about a job that will one day perhaps be all-important: executive secretary of the OPM. The $1-a-yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick M. Eaton, Wall Street lawyer...
...begun to fit the horses. But the great mess of the NDAC was being cleared up, as by a giant vacuum cleaner. The stink of it had apparently taken a long time to reach the President's nostrils, but now, under the indivisible fellow named Knudsenhillman - capital & labor, $1-a-year and New Deal-the confusion had at least been departmentalized, into Priorities, Purchases, Production. Filed for future reference were $1-a-yearling Ralph Budd (transportation), and three New Dealers, Harriet Elliott (consumers), Chester C. Davis (agriculture), and Leon Henderson (prices). Henderson, a pigeon who hates holes...
...time the Army started shopping for more trucks, Sidney Hillman's voice had more carrying power, for he had be come the left side of Franklin Roosevelt's two-headed defense tsar, Knudsenhillman, head of the powerful Office of Production Management. One of the first things Sidney Hillman said in his new, strong voice was that Army orders should go only to manufacturers who respect the Wagner Act and other New Deal labor legislation...